I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
More by Lydia Chávez
This page is showing up as incomplete. Or this is conceptual and I don’t understand it.
It starts with the bold statement “It was my idea first.” Always a conversation starter. Then we have an image of a victorian being rebuilt. Looks like a solid construction job but it still lacks context. And we end with a short bio about journalist Lydia Chavez. What do I not see?
This is part of ML’s “Snaps” series, which is usually a picture from the neighborhood with a headline and no other explanation. You may not grok the meaning behind every photo, but these snaps are intended to speak a thousand words on their own. Click on “Snaps” to see more.
Now I see it. Thanks.
Well, no complaints from the neighbor. Great photo. Good to see residential construction.